De Vaartkapoen

De Vaartkapoen on Place Sainctelette in Molenbeek, Brussels: a bronze policeman pitching face first toward the sidewalk because a cheeky figure has popped out of a manhole behind him and grabbed his foot. Tom Frantzen, who also made the city's peeing dog, sculpted it. A vaartkapoen is a canal rascal, and the policeman is a nod to Agent 15 from Hergé's Quick and Flupke comics. Few statues capture a whole neighborhood's attitude to authority in a single trip.